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Team Naach will be conducting two days long dance workshop on May 26 and 27 at Kshetra Dance School. Team Naach says, “We’ve received a lot of requests to come to Kochi on our YouTube channel and other social media handles. It was time to give the fans what they wanted and finally conduct our first workshop in Kochi. Also, Kshetra Dance School invited us and have given us this opportunity, so we are very thankful to them as well. “ This duo have their own choreography for popular trending songs. They conduct dance classes and workshops across Mumbai. They also conduct workshops in other major cities.
When the Jimmiki Kammal was creating a wave across the country and beyond, the internet was flooded with dance covers of the song. Sonal and Nicole had added their own flavor to this trend. With a beautiful backdrop that sets the right festive mood, draped in Kerala saree Sonal and Nicole’s version of Jimmiki Kammal has its own swag. The dance cover has over 9 million views. Producer and actor Vijay Babu happened to be one of the viewers, who offered them the song Changaathi Nannayal from Aadu 2.
With this their fan following in Kerala surged. They say, “Two videos on our channel have helped us connect with our south audience – Jimmiki Kammal and Changaathi Nannayal. These are the videos that established Team Naach in the south. We even had the opportunity to perform at YouTube Fan Fest in Chennai and Bangalore and that has helped us connect with our fans. We wanted to make sure we touch base with our fans in Kerala as well which is why we are looking forward to the workshop.”
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Talking about their experience during the shoot for the film song, they recall how challenging it was to learn the dance choreography on the spot. Yet it was exciting and they enjoyed it.
The workshop session will start with a warm-up regime followed by learning the elements of choreography. The song for the workshop is going to be a surprise but they do promise a lot of fun.
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Drinking liquor in Kerala may not be an easy task, given the fact that there are high taxes levied by the government for alcohol, unavailability of enough wine and beer shops and taboo of drinking in public places (might be worse, if you are women). Still, Kerala was regarded as one of the top consumers, when it comes to Alcohol consumption in the country.
The National Family Health Survey 2015-2016 (NFHS-4) has shown a considerable reduction in the proportion of men who drink alcohol in Kerala while the number of women who consume liquor has increased. A report by Malayala Manorama said that the percentage of men who drink in Kerala have also reduced to 37% from the 45.2% in the previous NFHS survey of 2005-2006. But, women who consume alcohol in Kerala have increased from 0.7 percent to 1.6 percent. This is when the nation-wide data of women shows a decrease from 2 percent to 1 percent.
The survey shows that in Kerala, women who drink are slowly getting accepted, but still face stiff resistance.
When American television host Jimmy Kimmel retweeted the video of girls clad in Kerala saris dancing to the Jimmiki Kammal song with the words “Love it”, it created an instant internet sensation (with record views on YouTube). But the lyrics also tell another story—the story of a certain normalisation of the idea, and images, of women drinking in Malayalam films.In 2017, at least 2-3 films show women in a pleasant drunken haze, not to mention the mother who downs a whole brandy bottle in the song. In Angamaly Diaries, Lichi does a happy-go-lucky tipsy walk, while, in Sarvopari Palakkaran, a very pleased matriarch is poured a drink at the onset of marriage celebrations. Many old movies also have good representation of women having alcohol on screen, one scene from Olympiyan Anthony Adam, where Valsala Menon kills it with Jagathy Sreekumar over a few drinks, was quite popular among Malayalam movie lovers.
According to the report, this change is in sync with the national trend as the proportion of men who consume alcohol in the country also declined slightly from 32 percent to 29 percent. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) data also back the declining trend.
Kerala’s notorious liquor queues, which usually extend all the way from the beverage-store counters out on to the roads, are not a place for the sober or the weak of hearted. These queues would make for an interesting sociological study: tenanted as an all-male preserve, unashamedly misogynistic. Women rarely venture there for fear of falling victim to the “righteous” wrath of male dipsomaniacs.
The idea that only “loose” women drink was a prejudice reinforced by popular cinema and Orthodox communities. Media and cinema both should bring back or heal that image of women, where they were shown as some old-fashioned lame women, acting all lusty, with her curls let loose and appearing to be submissive for their male counterparts, after a having one or two drinks. But rather show the real side of women in today’s time, who is a fierce feminist; one who is decently educated and independent, unapologetic, highly sarcastic and prudent enough to handle herself, even after she chugs a few drinks down.
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The song ‘Jimikki Kammal’ from the movie ‘Velipadinte Pusthakam’ has become one of the most viral videos on the internet, with a lot of people from Kerala and abroad grooving to the tune in their own signature moves. Just like the ice bucket challenge and the mannequin challenge, the ‘Jimikki Kammal’ dance challenge is now something to watch out for. Here’s a few of the many ‘Jimikki Kammal’ dance covers we thought topped the charts in creativity and quality.
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